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Tip #476: The word "committee"...

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Tip #476: The word "committee" is a collective noun that takes a singular verb.

 For example: The committee is to meet at 4:30 p.m.

If you wish to emphasize the individuals on the committee, use "the members of the committee" with the plural verb form.

For example: The members of the committee were all in agreement.

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This week’s quiz:

Which is the correct verb?

  1. Each of the companies (has ,have) filed for bankruptcy.

  2. Our products, especially the electronics line, (was, were) all successful this year.

  3. Their firm, like several other law firms, (was, were) caught unprepared for the new antitrust legislation.

Quote of the week:

"To many people, virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them."

(Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

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